Corporate Governance & Entity Management Counsel

Overview

This role is a full-time corporate associate secondment for up to 12 months for a Global Retail Company. The engagement is remote with occasional travel to Bentonville, Arkansas, and is expected to start as soon as possible.

The work supports transformation of the company’s subsidiary-governance function, with approximately:

• 65% building scalable processes, controls, and tools
• 35% hands-on entity execution

The attorney will be fully dedicated to and directed by the client and will collaborate with cross-functional business teams across a complex global entity portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Remediate subsidiary entity records, data, and documents
• Develop repeatable resolutions, templates, and approval workflows
• Implement lifecycle playbooks and RACI frameworks
• Define data and control requirements, support automation, and build quality assurance and reporting
• Handle US and international formations and foreign qualifications
• Prepare board and shareholder resolutions, governance actions, and D&O changes
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external service providers

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience; candidates with less experience will be considered if they have unusually direct experience on a large reorganization or in an in-house governance role
• Meaningful experience supporting a major enterprise reorganization, entity rationalization, integration, carve-out, or internal restructuring for a large multinational client
• Hands-on experience with US and international LLCs, corporations, and partnerships, including formations, qualifications, consents, officer and director actions, conversions, dissolutions, and corporate records
• Ability to manage multi-entity workstreams and work directly with business stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Big Law experience
• Track record of turning recurring work into an organized, repeatable process
• Ability to travel to client in Bentonville, Arkansas when required

Compensation & Benefits

• $110 – $125 per hour
• Candidates with rates above this range will also be considered

Location & Schedule

• Location: Remote, with occasional travel to Bentonville, Arkansas
• Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours per week
• Duration: Up to 12 months, starting ASAP

Employment & Checks

• Amenable to W-2 employment through a workforce solutions company for the duration of the engagement
• Willing to complete a background check